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"Developer Tools"

Canonical
27 May 2026

Introducing Workshop: launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Developers now benefit from consistency and repeatability for cutting-edge workflows, including agentic AI. Today, Canonical announced the release of Workshop, a solution for launching development environments with a single command. These environments are configured once, and can be reproduced on different machines. This means consistent ...

Canonical
23 March 2026

Canonical joins the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical’s Gold-level investment in the Rust Foundation supports the long-term health of the Rust programming language and highlights its growing role in building resilient systems on Ubuntu and beyond. AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — March 23, 2026 (Open Source SecurityCon, KubeCon Europe 2026) — Today Canonical announced that it has joine ...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal, well organized containers with a single command. This way, any developer can generate ...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Spring support available on Ubuntu

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spring on Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll explain what devpacks are and provide an overview of ...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and benefit from 12 years of ...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend development, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare, and government.  Java developers, more than most, are tasked with balancing the implementation of new features against the crit ...

Stefano Fioravanzo
14 January 2025

How to build your first model using DSS

AI Ubuntu tech blog

GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive into Hugging Face’s new self-paced course on LLMs. Learn how to build your first model and explore new GenAI topics this year! ...

Ed Jones
25 July 2023

Why and how to use Rust on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Rust has been the language most loved by developers for the last 8 years and it is seeing increased adoption by software companies of all sizes. However, its many high-level rules and abstractions create a steep initial learning curve which can leave the impression that Rust is the preserve of a select few but this couldn’t be any further ...

Michael C. Jaeger
20 February 2023

Gopaddle – A Low-Code Internal Developer Platform for Canonical’s MicroK8s edge cloud

Kubernetes Ubuntu tech blog

We are excited to announce the launch of gopaddle, the Low-Code Internal Developer Platform, as a community addon for MicroK8s edge cloud. ...